The Boats Cassia Counts

About this book

Cassia Morrow strips dying family firms for parts, and she is very good at it. At forty, she comes back to Gullwick, Maine — population nine hundred, granite and bait-smoke, a bronze bell that rings when a boat fails to return — to close the acquisition of the last working waterfront. That means the lobster co-op. That means Ben Whelan, who still lives in his grandmother's house, who still hasn't opened the letters she sent, who lost the tip of a finger to a trap and lost the rest of his twenties to waiting. Eighteen years ago Cassia took the blame for an accident that killed two men and left town so his name would stay clean. She has never told him why. She isn't planning to. The nor'easter has other plans.